The Katharine Kyes Leab & Daniel J. Leab American Book Prices Current Exhibition Award Winners 2007

The Exhibition Awards Committee of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries is pleased to announce the following winners of the 2007 Katharine Kyes Leab & Daniel J. Leab "American Books Prices Current" Exhibition Awards.  An awards ceremony was held at the RBMS program at the ALA Conference in Washington D.C., Sunday, June 24, 2007.

Winners, Division One (Expensive Printed Catalogs)

Half-Life: 25 Years of Books by Barbara Tetenbaum & Triangular Press, by Barbara Tetenbaum, Jim Carmin, and Uta Schneider, 2005, submitted by Multnomah County Public Libraries, John Wilson Special Collections Room.

"No Other Appetite": Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, and the Blood Jet of Poetry, by Stephen C. Enniss and Karen V. Kukil, 2005, submitted by The Grolier Club.

Winner, Division Two (Moderately Expensive Printed Catalogs)

Letters to Sala: A Young Woman's Life in Nazi Labor Camps, by Ann Kirschner, 2006, submitted by The New York Public Library, Dorot Jewish Division. 

Winners, Division Three (Inexpensive Printed Catalogs)

Ezra Pound in His Time and Beyond: The Influence of Ezra Pound on Twentieth-Century Poetry, by Jesse Rossa, 2006, submitted by University of Delaware Library.

Maxwell Did It! Photographing the Atlantic City Boardwalk, 1920s-1950s. Highlights from the R. C. Maxwell Company Collection, by Richard L. Collier, Jr. and Jacqueline V. Reid, 2006, submitted by John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History in the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.  

Winner, Division Four (Brochures)

A Tumultuous Assembly: Visual Poems of the Italian Futurists, by JoAnne Paradise and Annette Leddy, 2006, submitted by the Getty Research Institute.

Winner, Division Five (Electronic Exhibitions)

Vanished Worlds, Enduring People: Cornell University Library's Native American Collection, by Mary Dana Marks, Ken Williams, David Block, Katherine Reagan, and Susette Newberry, 2005, submitted by the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

A complete list of entries for the 2007 competition with contact and ordering/access information, as well as lists of entries and winners for other years may be found on the RBMS Exhibition Awards Committee page.